“The past always comes knocking, and sometimes it doesn't call first.”

“Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.”

“The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.”

“Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.”

“I will be loyal to my Clan above everything. What I want doesn't matter. The Clan must always come first.”

“I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.”